HL7 FHIR Implementation Guide: Breast Cancer Data, Release 1 - US Realm (Draft for Comment 2)

This page is part of the Breast Cancer Data Logical Models and FHIR Profiles (v0.2.0: STU 1 Draft) based on FHIR R3. . For a full list of available versions, see the Directory of published versions

BC BreastSpecimenTypeCS CodeSystem

The type of specimen obtained from the breast. Codes are drawn from SNOMED CT where available. Local codes are used where Snomed codes are currently unavailable.

This code system http://hl7.org/fhir/us/breastcancer/CodeSystem/oncology-BreastSpecimenTypeCS defines the following codes:

CodeDisplayDefinition
core Core biopsy specimenCore biopsy specimen
excision Excision specimen without wire locExcision specimen without wire loc
wire Excision specimen with wire locExcision specimen with wire loc
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References

This code system is used by the following value sets: